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I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 Lodging "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais Lodging
"There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar Lodging A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous Lodging
Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken Lodging All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) Lodging
What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber Lodging The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud Lodging
Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full
of grac "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar Lodging When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman Lodging
We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch Lodging Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) Lodging
I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville Lodging Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) Lodging
"He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position Lodging The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein Lodging
In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun Lodging We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what
may Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper Lodging
"Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show Lodging "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell Lodging
The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Lodging "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck Lodging
